Uses up to 50% less power than laser printers6.Save up to 50% on paper with automatic, two-sided printing.ENERGY STAR® qualified.RoHS compliant.Recyclable product7.Epson America, Inc. is a SmartWaySM Transport Partner8

Product description

Product Description

Engineered for Business. Ideal for the busy home office, the Workforce 645 is the hassle-free all-in-one that brings you the World's Fastest one- and two-sided print speeds in its class, plus automatic two-sided printing/copying/scanning. It boasts a 250-sheet paper tray, and you can save on ink with available Extra High-capacity ink cartridges - up to 40% less printing costs than color lasers. You can even save time with the Workforce 645 with speeds of 15 ISO ppm (black) and 7.2 ISO ppm (color). Use the 30-page ADF to quickly copy, scan or fax stacks of two-sided originals. Easily share your all-in-one with built-in wired and wireless networking. Or, use Epson Connect to print from popular mobile devices. This powerful product is built to keep your business running at full speed.Compatible Operating Systems: Windows: Windows 7, Vista, XP, XP x64,Mac: OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.8, 10.6.x, 10.7.x.Rated Voltage 100 to 120 VAC.

From the Manufacturer

WorkForce 645 All-in-One

Print | Copy | Scan | Fax | Wi-Fi

WHY BUY?

Engineered for Business.

Ideal for the busy home office, the WorkForce 645 is the hassle-free all-in-one that brings you the World's Fastest one- and two-sided print speeds in its class¹, plus automatic two-sided printing/copying/scanning. It boasts a 250-sheet paper tray, and you can save on ink with available Extra High-capacity ink cartridges — up to 40% less printing costs than color lasers13. You can even save time with the WorkForce 645 with speeds of 15 ISO ppm (black) and 7.2 ISO ppm (color)†. Use the 30-page ADF to quickly copy, scan or fax stacks of two-sided originals. Easily share your all-in-one with built-in wired and wireless networking5. Or, use Epson Connect to print from popular mobile devices4. This powerful product is built to keep your business running at full speed.

Instant-dry, smudge and water resistant inksPlus individual ink cartridges allow you to replace only the color you need

What is ISO ppm?

ISO ppm is based on the international standard for measuring print speed. Black and color print speeds are determined in default, single-side mode, in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734. Actual print times will vary based on system configuration, software, and page complexity.

See www.epson.com/printspeed for details, including complete ISO reports.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

Do more — 30-page Auto Document Feeder to quickly copy, scan or fax stacks of one- or two-sided originals

*Yields based on ISO/IEC 24711 tests in default mode printing continuously. Actual yields will be lower with higher-density images, hot or dusty conditions, less frequent printing or printing predominantly with one color. All ink colors are used for printing and all-in-one maintenance, and all colors have to be installed for printing. For print quality, part of the ink from the included cartridges is used for printer startup and a variable amount of ink remains in the cartridges after the "replace cartridge" signal. For details, see www.epson.com/cartridgeinfo

Fastest in its class; printing black text in default, single-sided mode, in accordance with ISO/IEC 24734. Compared to ink jet all-in-ones priced at $199 or less, as of March 2011, based on manufacturers’ rated ISO speeds or independent testing.

Compared with best-selling color laser all-in-ones priced at $499 or less, as of December 2010. Calculation based on continuous printing with highest-capacity cartridges. Actual savings will vary based on print task and use conditions.

Get about two times more prints per cartridge compared with Epson’s 126 Black ink cartridge.

See www.epson.com/connect regarding compatible devices and apps.

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n certified; level of performance subject to the range of the router being used. Visit www.wi-fi.org/files/11nbasics_glossary.pdf for more information.

Epson provides phone support without charge for the life of the product. Telephone toll charges may apply.

Actual savings and yields may vary.

Some applications and/or functions, like two-sided printing, may not be supported under Mac® OS X.

Compared to the best-selling monochrome and color multifunction laser printers available for $699 or less as of December 2010. Actual power savings will vary by product model and usage.

See our website for convenient and reasonable recycling options at www.epson.com/recycle

For sending faxes only

SmartWay is an innovative partnership of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that reduces greenhouse gases and other air pollutants and improves fuel efficiency.

Up to 40% lower printing costs compared with best-selling color laser all-in-ones priced at $499 or less, as of December 2010. Calculation based on continuous printing with highest-capacity cartridges. Actual savings will vary based on print task and use conditions.

Epson, DURABrite and WorkForce are registered trademarks, Epson Exceed Your Vision is a registered logomark and Better Products for a Better Future is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corporation. Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc. SmartWay is a service mark of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Wi-Fi is a registered mark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other product and brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Epson disclaims any and all rights in these marks. Copyright 2011 Epson America, Inc. 8/11

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I received this printer today. Some things I want to answer to the questions I had before buying are:

Is the scanner wireless?After browsing through many different printers, I noticed on other printers that the scanner was not wireless. So even though one could print wirelessly, a cord had to be used when you wanted to scan something to your printer. This is not true for this printer. It literally does EVERYTHING wirelessly (except receive power of course)

How long did it take to set it up?Once I took it out of the box within 10 minutes it was ready to print/scan/fax. Set up was really easy. Read the set-up packet before you start following directions on the printer. Apparently the directions tell you to skip some steps that the printer itself may ask. BUT I didn't read the directions first, and everything turned out okay, so hopefully it will for you as well.

Fax?So my printer is not hooked up to a phone line or ethernet. I have the fax option on my computer for it, so I assume I can fax out but maybe not receive faxes. I am not sure so I will have to investigate and fill you in on this.

What is the print quality?I will use this printer mostly for my college work. So far with the random prints I have made so far, I have no complaints. It is definitely better than any HP printer I have had.

Scan/Copy Feeder?I like it a lot! It's quick and easy to load. It can scan in .pdf, but I am not sure if it is a searchable .pdf document.

Loading paper?On the actual printer I kept looking for the 8 1/2 x 11 and it didn't have it anywhere, so make sure you know if you are using legal or letter paper. :)

Any other questions you may have, just reply and I will try to answer as much as I can.

--------UPDATES------------With the scanner you can scan straight to a USB Jump Drive without having to use your computer as a middle man. The ADF seems to only accept 8.5 by (X) paper with the 8.5 side feeding in the scanner.-When scanning with the ADF, scans can be placed in one file (with different options for extensions, .pdf, .jpg, etc).

One of the main things I was looking for when purchasing a new all-in-one printer was wireless scanning. The Epson WorkForce 645 does scan wireless (on Mac, not sure about PC) contrary what some of the other reviewers have said.

To scan on Mac (10.8) look for "Image Capture" in the Applications folder (its a system app so you should have it). Launch the app, and you should see the Epson 645 under shared devices in the sidebar. Click on it (will likely ask you install some drivers) and you can scan wirelessly from there. You can choose what in folder the file should be stored, what file format it should be, the filename, resolution, etc.

Please note that you have to scan by clicking on scan through Image Capture rather than pressing scan on the printer itself. Also, the printer will still show a communication error while scanning although the scanning is successful. The only downside with this, as compared to using a memory stick, is that I do not need to go back to the printer and remove the memory stick when done and can just continue working at my computer, so I often forget to go back and remove the scanned item from the printer.

Also, just in general, this is a great printer for college students... its fairly inexpensive compared to other printers (or paying to print at the library), its not too big, its not too noisy, and after 5 months of using it I have yet to replace the ink. The only thing that's a bit annoying with this printer is that printing directly from websites is very, very slow. So if I want to print a pdf file from Blackboard I always have to download it first and then print it. Not sure if this is normal for these kind of printers, although with my old printer there was no difference between printing a pdf from the web or the hard drive.

For my uses/needs its a 4.8/5, rounded up to 5/5. If you are looking for more detail on specific features, there's some great, detailed reviews here in the review section.

This printer is so so. I bought one my sophomore year of college after having used my roomate's freshman year. I liked the wi-fi printing feature because I thought it was pretty new (2011) and I saw myself getting a lot of use out of it but as the years went on I became less pleased with my purchase. The biggest problem is that the printer frequently reports a paper jam when no such thing exists. I pull out the paper tray and put it back in then hit a button to restart. When scanning using the adf papers will often get stuck. The machine itself feels like a cheaply assembled hunk of plastic. The pop-out tray (where the papers print) gets stuck and you have to jiggle it back and forth to push it in or pull it out. It constantly has me worried that I'm going to break the thing. Also the printing quality is not that great; I frequently get hazy letters (although it is possible that I may need to do more routine maintenance). Now one nice feature is that you can give the printer it's own email address and print even while not connected to the same wi-fi network. I haven't had to use this feature but a couple of times when I was coming back to the dorm to pick something up and didn't have time to stop at a library, log in to a computer and print off a document. This printer works great with smart phones and tablets. There is the epson iprint app which allows you to print from your phone, straight from a webpage, and even do maintenance. Please keep in mind when reading this review that this is my first printer so I really don't have a whole lot to compare it too.